Translation Salon: Kafkaesque
The London Library contains books in, on and translated from a whole world of languages. To celebrate the incredible scope of that collection, they are delighted to introduce their new Translation Salon, which will explore multiple perspectives and ideas around language and the intricate art of translation. For their inaugural salon, host, translator and translation […]
Will Self in Conversation
Join celebrated writer Will Self in conversation with Chris Gribble about his career, his latest novel The Quantity Theory of Morality, his reflections on Jewishness and antisemitism, and the future of the novel. Buy a copy of The Quantity Theory of Morality by Will Self
Dealing with the Tragic in Life: Mahler, Judaism and Beyond
In partnership with Fidelio and The Barbican A pre-concert conversation with Raffaello Morales, Edward Seckerson and Anthony Freud OBE. Followed by a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 by Fidelio Orchestra, conducted by Raffaello Morales. Mahler’s Sixth Symphony is often known as the “Tragic”. Yet it was composed during one of the happiest periods of […]
The Relativity of Death: Kabbalah of Information, the Book and the Music
Scientist, entrepreneur and Kabbalah scholar Eduard Shyfrin PhD introduces The Relativity of Death, Part I and discusses how Jewish mysticism has shaped an unexpected new chapter in his life in music. A pioneer of the “Kabbalah of Information”, his search for meaning led him back to the music of his childhood and ultimately to composing […]
New Natural Histories
Nature surrounds us. But what is it — and why is it always changing? Two experts join us, chaired by Daniel Glaser. In Metamorphosis, science writer Oren Harman tackles one of biology’s greatest wonders and toughest riddles. From butterflies to human adolescents, why all this destruction and remodelling? Along the way, Aristotle concludes cucumbers have […]
Mel Brooks: The Almost 100 Year Old Man
Brownsville, Brooklyn, June 28th, 1926: on a tenement table is born a baby who will transform comedy. As his centenary nears, we celebrate Mel Brooks and his dazzling seven decades on stage and screen, from The 2000 Year Old Man and Young Frankenstein to The Producers and History of the World, Parts I & II. […]
Surviving Mengele’s Auschwitz
The extraordinary story of how two boys survived humanity’s darkest hour – and then found each other again half a century later. Kalman & Leopold is the harrowing firsthand account – narrated to the latter’s son Richard K. Lowy, who joins us here – of a pair of children spared from the Auschwitz gas chambers, […]
Family, Exile & Food: Middle Eastern Stories
Stella Darvey Joory and Linda Dangoor join Lyn Julius for a rich conversation on heritage, exile and the worlds we carry with us. In Rachel: A Life in a Turbulent Century, Joory reconstructs her mother’s remarkable journey from Damascus to Baghdad and beyond, tracing the seismic political upheavals that reshaped Middle Eastern Jewish life. Dangoor’s From the Tigris […]
Matchmaker, Matchmaker: A Practical Guide
Catch me a catch! Renowned American-Israeli relationship coach Aleeza Ben Shalom shot to international fame as the star of Netflix’s Jewish Matchmaking. Now, with hundreds of successful matches to her name, she joins us in London for a special event around her paradigm-shifting, highly original book Matchmaker, Matchmaker: Find Me a Love That Lasts. With her signature mix of […]
The Story of Norwood
Author Sandra Myers and historian Trudy Gold explore Sandra’s The History of Norwood – from its 1795 origins as an East End refuge for destitute Jews to Britain’s leading Jewish children’s charity supporting 6,000 people a year. Along the way, they spotlight remarkable alumni, including Sylvia Graham – F. Scott Fitzgerald’s on-off muse – and […]
Mamdani: A New New York
New York, home to the largest Jewish community outside Israel, is experiencing a profound political and cultural shift. What do these changes mean for Jewish identity, security and civic life? Zohran Mamdani’s shock election as mayor saw senate minority leader Chuck Schumer declining to endorse his fellow Democrat. Jane Eisner, who led The Forward for […]
Tales of Love from the Therapy Couch
Why do we struggle with love? Drawing on four decades of candid conversations with patients, psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz asks what gets in the way of falling in love — and what it takes to stay there. The Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author of The Examined Life returns with Love’s Labour: luminous, essential stories from the […]